9-ball rating system....

[abie10]

i'd be interested, but i definately think a web based app would be better than an iphone app...get more interest that way

 

[btoneill]

i'd be interested, but i definately think a web based app would be better than an iphone app...get more interest that way

Yeah, plus I don't have an iPhone. I will make it easy for use on touch screen phones tho via the web. Plus, easy via using an actual computer.

Tossing together all the ideas and comments from people and will probably start coding it later this week, hopefully have something semi usable by this weekend.

 

[BasementDweller]

I have been down this road before, and you end up tracking way too much data. It becomes too tedious and you end up dropping it.

Why is everyone wanting to do this in the first place. To get your rating, that's easy to do. Here is how it is done:

1) Go ask 5 people that play better than you what they rate you as.
2) Average the 5 answers, and you have a pretty accurate rating.

You see, it makes no difference what you think you are, it only matters what other players think you are, and that's because they will base their negotiations for a game with you on what they think you are, which includes any spots by you or for you.

I have played for 49 years now, and there is only 1 statistic that I keep track of:

1) My win percentage of hill-to-hill matches, which is 88% BTW. This tells me how well I am standing up to the pressure and how smart I am playing.

If this is true (that you win 88% of your hill-2-hill matches) than you may want to ask yourself why you are letting so many inferior players take you to the hill. If you were really playing with a focused intensity I don't think as many players would be taking you to the hill. So maybe your H2H win percentage would go down to around 60% but only your equals would manage to get there. So your overall win % would go up. Just saying

 

[TimmyB80]

If this is true (that you win 88% of your hill-2-hill matches) than you may want to ask yourself why you are letting so many inferior players take you to the hill. If you were really playing with a focused intensity I don't think as many players would be taking you to the hill. So maybe your H2H win percentage would go down to around 60% but only your equals would manage to get there. So your overall win % would go up. Just saying

He never said how many players take him to the hill. He just said, of the subset of matches that DO go to the hill, he wins 88%. If he has played 1000 matches, and 100 go hill-hill, he wins 88.

 

[ctyhntr]

If you need help getting this published as a web app on the iPhone, let me know.

A web app for the iPhone basically consist of an icon (shortcut) that points to your URL. To make it iPhone friendly, make the webpages 320x480 or 1024x768 (ipad), and avoid using flash.

Henry

Yeah, plus I don't have an iPhone. I will make it easy for use on touch screen phones tho via the web. Plus, easy via using an actual computer.

Tossing together all the ideas and comments from people and will probably start coding it later this week, hopefully have something semi usable by this weekend.

 

[iownthe412]

Not sure if this helps but I have a straight pool score sheet on my Droid. It is literally called "Straight Pool Score Sheet." I love it; simplicity is key. Designers name is Florian Geib. His email is florian.geib@scriptsoft.de

Like I said, hope this helps,
Ian

 

[BasementDweller]

He never said how many players take him to the hill. He just said, of the subset of matches that DO go to the hill, he wins 88%. If he has played 1000 matches, and 100 go hill-hill, he wins 88.

If you play someone and 9 out of 10 times that the race goes hill-2-hill you win, at some point wouldn't you begin to think that you are the better player? I was just extrapolating that out a bit that's all.

It just seems like you would have to be the overwhelming favorite to win nearly 90% of your hill-2-hill matches. I know for me it seems like it is more of a coin toss when I go hill-2-hill.

I could be wrong about this one. Anyways, it was off topic so I will just leave it at that.

- Wish I could win 90% of my hill-2-hill matches